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Theorycraft - 2.2 Rend/WW Cold Barb

You're theorycrafting in the right place, because I spent 30+ hours on the PTR trying to work on various pull/zDPS/tanky builds.

The initial build (which was nerfed into the ground) looked really promising:

Gear:

In-Geom (pre-nerf) + Solanium

Zodiac

RoRG

EQ 3

Vigilante belt

Stomplanche boots (pre-belt change) or Luts

Dovu amulet

Skull of Resonance

Parthan bracers

~70% CDR

Essoteric, Gogok, and Wildebeast gems

Skills:

GS - Jarring

Leap - DFA

EQ - Cave-in

TS - Grim Harvest

IP - Mob Rule

Avalanche - Snow-capped or Rend Mutilate.

Passives:

Nerves

Relentless

Superstition

Rampage or Inspiring Presence

Leapquake was proccing Zodiac, so my CDs for leap and groud stomp were coming back in about 2s so I could rotate for perma-stun on the RG. Tanked my way through a grouped GR50+ without taking much damage.

Zodiac nerfed 3 times in a row. In-Geom turned into insta-salvage. Back to the drawing board.

Your build is similar to one of many I attempted after that, it has some downfalls:

Wrath 5 piece and only 2 pieces of IK leaves you with massive downtime on WotB, gutting both damage and defense. Zodiac no longer works to keep WotB up with a full WotW build, you have to mix in IK3.

Iceblink is a steamy PoS according to the general population. We will see as time goes on.

Dread Iron is actually unnecessary, the stun from GS is better and lasts longer than the freeze from avalanche.

Earthen Might won't keep up with how much Fury you will need.

Rend, while nice, is not a sustainable part of these builds (I tried).

WW Hurricane only pulls 2x per second. Not anywhere near enough unfortunately.

Some things to try:

Ancient Spear - Harpoon: best thing ever for pulling. Sucks down Fury like nobody's business, still working on ways to sustain (atm thinking Lightning WW+BKO for fury, mobility and resets w/ zodiac when I don't need to pull things).

Reduce the number of CDs you regularly use to 2 (aside from WotB+CotA with the 4-piece IK b/c they reset so fast it won't interfere with zodiac's reset too much). Ground Stomp +

Threatening Shout w/ SoR are the most successful CDs so far. You may find some other great combo.

Try IK3+WotW3, SoR, RoRG, Zodiac, Dovu

Max out CDR in every single slot

Max Fury on Paragon, weaps, and belt - gives you a bigger pool when you need to chain spam scorpion's harp... I mean ancient spear.